MAPP 300: Guest Talk with Fernando Velázquez

MAPP 300: Guest Talk with Fernando Velázquez

Tuesday, 1 February, 3:30 EST

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Fernando Velázquez [Montevideo, Uruguay, 1970, lives and works in Sao Paulo] is a multimedia artist, curator and professor. He has a MA in Fashion, Art and Culture from Senac-SP, a postgraduate degree in Video and On and Offline Technologies from Mecad de Barcelona, and Contemporary Cultural Management specialization from Itaú Cultural Institute/Singularidades. He has participated in exhibitions such as The Matter of Photography in the Americas (Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA, 2018), Emoción Art.Ficial, Bienal de Arte y Tecnologia (Itaú Cultural, Brasil, 2012), Bienal del Mercosur (Brazil, 2009), Mapping Festival (Switzerland, 2011), WRO Biennale (Poland 2011) and Pocket Film Festival (Center Pompidou, Paris, 2007). He received, among others awards, the Competitive Fund for Culture (Uruguay, 2019), the Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology (Brazil, 2009), Locative Media Arte.Mov (Brazil, 2008) and Artificial Life (Spain, 2008). He was a lecturer at PUC-SP, FAAP-SP and Senac-SP, and coordinates with Lucas Bambozzi the MOLA group of studies in art, science and technology. Between 2015 and 2018, he was curator and artistic director of the Red Bull Station in São Paulo. - fernandovelazquez.art

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